Press release
31 January 2006

Maroc Soir Groupe, a leading newspaper publisher in Morocco, has signed comprehensive contract with KnowledgeView for a multi-platform publishing system driven by RAPID Browser and Adobe publishing software.

Awan, launched on 18 November 2007, is the first Arabic newspaper to employ a convergent newsroom approach in the Middle East. The newsroom is a beehive of activity, working in a systematic and coherent way to publish to paper, web and mobile platforms.

Best
Buy is an authorized distributor of Apple Computer, Inc. that was
established in 1998 as a shareholding company with a paid-in-capital of
LE 1,050,000 and an authorized capital of LE 2,000,000. Its staff
consists of 54 people. In 1985, CITE – Best Buy’s mother company – was
established in 1985, being the first authorized Apple distributor in
Egypt that pioneers the field of Macintosh Computers. Now CITE leads
its five subsidiaries CITE started passing its Apple operations to Best

With over 3000 journalists and informational professionals using RAPID Browser in more than 30 media organisations, it has become necessary to establish the users' group, allowing users real input on how RAPID Browser is developed to serve their needs. The KnowledgeView users' group will feature an online site on and at least one users' get-together per year.

The successful informal users group meeting, held in Abu Dhabi in June 2007, and attended by leading users of RAPID Browser and RAPID Archive, recommended the establishment of the users' group.

Introduction:

The digital world is about content, not medium. And it’s about content that is consumed differently to traditional media. While it requires a very different mindset to traditional media production, there are many disciplines a traditional journalist working in print or broadcast can take into the new world.

The principle disciplines are about recognising and telling a good story. However, to be successful in the digital world, journalists and editors need to be skilled-up to tell stories in a totally new way.

A one-day conference was organized on October 31 in Kuwait in the Sheraton Hotel by M. A. Kharafi Group, KnowledgeView and IFRA, under the patronage of Sheikh Faisal Khalifa Al-Malek Al-Sabah, Deputy Minister of Information, to talk about the latest publishing trends and strategies in the newspaper industry.

KnowledgeView and Jordanian software company ProSys have installed RAPID browser software for Al Syjjyl Newspaper which is now considered the first weekly Jordanian newspaper to use such a software in a hosted environment in the Arab world.

The hosted software, RAPID Browser, will maximize the return on the capital investment for Al Syjjyl by providing accurate and reliable management information and reducing operation costs. The weekly newspaper will not need a server to acquire news feeds from all over the news agencies.

KnowledgeView and Ifra have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in providing Ifra Newsplex training workshops in the Middle East region.

The two entities will jointly host these events, while KnowledgeView will manage and market them.

The training course will initially comprise the following:

KnowledgeView has successfully completed in December 2006 the installation of an integrated news management, editorial production and archiving system for the Al-Watan Qatar newspaper, published by Dar Al Watan Press Establishment. The successful completion of this installation has transformed editorial production in All-Watan to digital workflow with immediate benefits greatly improved editorial efficiency and better editorial quality.